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Submitted by hasimcd on March 8, 2006
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Utopic Dreams
The philosophical questions like “what should be the ideal world?” have been asked among people, who have reached the average living standards and had time to think and discuss. In the book “Republic” written in 380 B.C. by Plato, Socrates, Plato’s teacher, explains how to create the perfect city and interrogates himself and his interlocuters, to find out to the way to the best society. Socrates thinks that in order to set up a minimal city (first step to kallipolis) we should adopt the idea of the principle of specialisation.
First of all, we should know that the principle of specialisation comes on the scene when Socrates tries to answer “what is justice”. Instead of defining justice as behavioral norms as we do genarally, Socrates tries to find justice in the structure of the city. He believes that it is easy to analyze justice in the city than it would be to analyze it in the soul “…there is more justice in the larger thing, and it will be easier to learn what it is … let’s first find out what sort of thing justice is in a city and afterwards look for it in the individual, observing the ways in which the smaller is similar to the larger.”(p43 369a)- Therefore before all else we should examine the city, within the principle of specialisation in order to reach the justice in souls. We can that the just structure of the city is summed up by the principle of specialisation. So that Socrates focuses on the foundatiton of the minimal city and defines it “and because people need many things, and because
one person calls on a second out of one need and on a third out of a different need, many people gather in a single place to live together as partners and helpers. And such settlement is called a city.”( p44 369c). I consider that this definition is absolutely true, that a city comes into being because human beings cannot satisfy all their...
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